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Originally Posted by MooseDog
Tom,
I heartily agree with you in terms of cutting up a perfectly good collectible, but I have a lot of experience in working with books and magazines for a local organization.
Some older paper items are already basically "cut up" condition, missing bindings, pages, basically worthless as a "whole" collectible. However many have interesting pictures and ads in them that I think should be saved.
Would you consider culling pictures and such from those types of items OK?
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You directed this to Tom and I am not Tom, but here is my answer anyways
I think this is the gray area for me. If only a couple of pages can be salvaged from these books then I can see why. On the other hand what happens is that people see that those individual pages bring more money when you add all the pages together than the whole book, so it prompts others to start cutting up books to get the most monetary value out of it.
Then the person cutting up a full good book can say that it wasn't a good book and they are just preserving a few pages, but there is no way for the rest of us to know that is true.
It is a tough call and it is for that reason I say they can be sold with the info disclosed, but I don't ever want to buy one.